Mainstreaming ICT

Okay, Spurred on by the “success” of Community Mobile Channels making it to round 2 of Knight News Challenge I have made a few useful changes and released a new version. This covers the following main changes.
* Overall CSS improvements
* Design improvements on home pages - both public and logged in
* Latest sites stream
* Channels [...]

Okay so a new year is here and it is a year with a lot of expectations. Of course in South Africa the World Cup will be the dominant event but besides that there are a load of other things that will be going on with regard to Information and Communication Technology and how we [...]

I am please to announce that version 0.1.7 of community mobile channels has been released at sourceforge, http://sourceforge.net/projects/communitymobile/
This is a fairly major release which now contains enough for the first beta (which will effectively be the bugfix of this release). One of the biggest changes is the User Experience Overhaul which provides for a complete [...]

I’ve been a bit quiet - It called being fully committed to projects at the moment, a rare and happy condition - but here is an update on a few things I should have blogged about.
1. Progress on Community Mobile Channels
I have been tied up with client projects so progress has been slow - the [...]

Community Mobile Channels is still in alpha but it is getting closer to a Beta edition - This post gives a quick overview of where we are and where we are going - Below is the Basic Feature Set of Community Mobile Channels (This is all total based around mobile and XHTML-MP)

Login/Registration

Standard secure login functionality
Registration [...]

I have released version 0.1.5 alpha of Community Mobile Channels (CMC) - the 3 major changes on this release as detailed below: -

MMS/email picture upload (requires gmail account and php imap module (usually installed))
Desktop browser detection and no link to mobilised links from desktop (browser.ini used)
Several Fixes around private channels and security

The new release is [...]

On Tuesday I was privileged to go to Cape Town for the Launch of Net Tuesdays in South Africa. It was great to see many people working and interested in social media and mobile web developments. I really hope that this initiative will go from strength to strength and I am hoping for collaborations with [...]

Since the first alpha release last week there has been activity on the project. The latest alpha release (version 0.1.2) provides a few bug fixes, format changes and the following additional functionality:

Simplified method of adding internal and external links. External links are also sent to mowser transcoder to allow for mobile reading of non-mobile optimised [...]

I am very pleased to announce that the Community Mobile Channels Version 0.1 Alpha source code and demo is now available (on this site!). To visit the demo go to http://www.mainstreamingict.org/cmc
There are a few example M-sites (micro websites) loaded up onto the demo and you are free to register if you would like to [...]

The community mobile channels project is under development. One of the key pieces of functionality is the ability for people to upload media directly from their phones. This is fairly simple from a coding perspective but there are many factors to consider around security and size of files.
Security is the number one priority as uploaders [...]